Share Incentive Plan

Associated British Foods PLC
21 November 2006

21st November 2006


                          ASSOCIATED BRITISH FOODS plc


Associated British Foods Executive Share Incentive Plan 2003


Further to the announcement made on 20th November 2006, Associated British Foods
plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 20th November
2006 and 21st November 2006 for the purposes of Section 329 of the Companies Act
1985 from the Royal Bank of Canada (Jersey) Limited (the 'Trustee'), as trustee
of the Associated British Foods Executive Share Incentive Plan 2003 (the 'Plan
'), that the Trustee acquired 400,000 of the Company's ordinary shares of 5 15/
22 pence ('Ordinary Shares').  The Ordinary Shares were acquired by the Trustee
as follows:-


Date of Acquisition       Shares acquired       Average price per ordinary share

20 November 2006                  200,000                       890.09p

21 November 2006                  200,000                       888.20p


The Plan takes the form of conditional allocations by the Trustee of Ordinary
Shares to senior managers, including directors of the Company, which will be
released if, and to the extent that, certain performance targets are satisfied
over a three year performance period.


The following conditional allocations of ordinary shares of 5 15/22 pence were
made to directors of the Company on 21st November 2006 under the terms of the
Plan:-

George G. Weston                   94,793 shares

John G. Bason                      68,812 shares

The allocation was made on the basis of an allocation price of 890.10 pence
(being the average of the daily closing mid-market prices for the shares over 5
consecutive days) in accordance with the terms of the Plan.



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